Distributed Applications Require Distributed Load Balancers and API Gateways A key aspect of modern cloud-native applications is their modularity and distributed deployment architectures.

An API gateway is simply a reverse proxy or load balancer that sits between client applications and the API services that they call.

Approximately 40% of NGINX customers use the product to implement an API gateway solution, and Rabsatt discussed that this is an area that is important to NGINX.

The tight integration with AWS Gateway Load Balancer allows us to offer turn-key solutions that greatly simplify IT operations,” said Paola Moretto, VP of System Engineering at cPacket Networks.

Node.js, the popular implementation of JavaScript that takes it outside of a browser and into servers, is being fitted with load balancing and API improvements as a precursor to the planned 1.0 ...